alewife

alewife englannista suomeksi

1. pilkkusilli

1. harmaasilli, kantasilli

alewife englanniksi

1. A woman who keeps an alehouse.

2. A migrating North American fish, (taxlink).

3. (quote-journal)

4. 1865, Henry David Thoreau, ''Cape Cod'', Chapter I. "The Shipwreck", page 14.

I saw in Cohasset, separated from the sea only by a narrow beach, a handsome but shallow lake of some four hundred acres(...), and, after the alewives had passed into it, it had stopped up its outlet, and now the alewives were dying by thousands, and the inhabitants were apprehending a pestilence as the water evaporated.

5. Any of several species similar in appearance.